The store wiped all the apps every night, so he had to reinstall it every day, after copying out the photos while "testing" the machine.

Apple found out about it after McDonald set up an unauthorized, impromptu exhibition by uploading the photos to Tumblr, then going to a store on West 14th St. and pointing machines to the exhibit.

Apple was not amused.

It called the U.S. Secret Service screaming computer fraud (which, unless McDonald was only pretending to take the photos, or Apple was only pretending not to be an Evil Empiric dictatorship, doesn't apply at all).

The Secret Service took time away from its efforts to protect the president and track down counterfeiters to visit McDonals and take away his computers and flash drives.

McDonald called the Electronic Frontier Foundation for advice and help.